Andrej Balco | Anthracite

May 3 to June 22, 2011
The Olomouc Archdiocesan Museum | Café Amadeus

Andrej Balco (* 1973) is a graduate of the Institute of Creative Photography at the Silesian University in Opava (2010) and the Faculty of Social Affairs Trnava University in Trnava, Slovakia (1998). His work focuses on both the portrait concept document and suggestive story about the place and time in which it is. His latest photo series captures life in the Ukrainian city of anthracite. Documented here mainly lives in the city where most of the population lives below the poverty line without hope of change. Dismal living conditions, when many work shifts in a few working hours, in order to meet basic living expenses and daily needs are reflected in the photographs that lose from an earlier posters exotic colors and humorous sarkastičnosti. Balco focused mainly on the status of the young generation, which is absolutely hopeless and without a future. Those who have the courage to leave as illegal workers abroad, others work in the mines or trying to take hold in one of the few factories such. Slavsant. Among the more than 300 employees working here for about one quarter of women. Whose position is also the author was trying to record. The result is raw, emotionally powerful shots from the operation of the factory where young women every day for a paltry security measures and mostly free technical support will assist in the production and transport of tons of metal pipes and pipe.